14 must-read nonfiction books like KitchenWise: Essential Food Science for Home Cooks by Shirley O. Corriher

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KitchenWise: Essential Food Science for Home Cooks

By: Shirley O. Corriher

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The James Beard Award–winning, bestselling author of CookWise and BakeWise delivers essential cooki…

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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage

By: Bill Bryson

3.81

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more

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"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

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2. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

By: Wendy MacNaughton , Samin Nosrat

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
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3. The Dark Vineyard (Bruno, Chief of Police, #2)

By: Martin Walker

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Bruno Courrèges, chef de la police municipale, est réveillé au milieu de la nuit: un incendie s'est… read more

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4. The Children Return (Bruno, Chief of Police, #7)

By: Martin Walker

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of … read more

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5. Fatal Pursuit (Bruno, Chief of Police, #9)

By: Martin Walker

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

A pair of murders, a romance and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value… read more

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6. An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

By: Alice Waters , Tamar Adler

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf-- written in 1942 during war… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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7. The Devil's Cave (Bruno, Chief of Police, #5)

By: Martin Walker

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Mystery, food, and wine in the French province of Dordogne--the latest offering from Martin Walker,… read more

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8. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

By: J. Kenji López-Alt

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-r… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science

9. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent-… read more

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  • nonfiction

10. The Templars' Last Secret (Bruno, Chief of Police, #10)

By: Martin Walker

3.38

Format: None pages,

Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back… read more

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11. The Resistance Man (Bruno, Chief of Police #6)

By: Martin Walker

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Bruno Courreges--provincial French police chief extraordinaire--is back in another delectable tale … read more

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12. Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

4.09

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more

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"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

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13. The Elements of Style

By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.

4.18

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more

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  • nonfiction
"He owned"

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

14. Eating Animals

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating… read more

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15. The Patriarch (Bruno, Chief of Police, #8)

By: Martin Walker

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death--it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne… read more

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16. Black Diamond (Bruno, Chief of Police #3)

By: Martin Walker

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

In Saint-Denis, the "black diamond" truffle is a treasured asset, but reports suggest this unique d… read more

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17. Stories I Only Tell My Friends

By: Rob Lowe

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Hardcover

A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the… read more

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18. Little Big Man

By: Thomas Berger

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of… read more

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19. Bruno, Chief of Police (Bruno, Chief of Police #1)

By: Martin Walker

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, a po… read more

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20. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more

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21. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

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22. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

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23. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

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24. Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

By: Marie Kondō

3.47

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizati… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Another way of building trust is to authentically delegate. Don't assign someone work and then constantly monitor their progress and ignore their ideas."

-Marie Kondō, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

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25. Taste: My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci

4.21

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

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26. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi

27. Notes from a Young Black Chef

By: Kwame Onwuachi

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

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28. A Taste for Vengeance (Bruno, Chief of Police, #11)

By: Martin Walker

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic… read more

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  • food
Cover of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth

29. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

By: Nicole Perlroth

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"

-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

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30. Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers

By: Eric Pallant

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sourdough bread fueled the labor that built the Egyptian pyramids. The Roman Empire distributed fre… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
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31. KitchenWise: Essential Food Science for Home Cooks

By: Shirley O. Corriher

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The James Beard Award–winning, bestselling author of CookWise and BakeWise delivers essential cooki… read more

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5 Top science books like KitchenWise: Essential Food Science for Home Cooks by Shirley O. Corriher

Transform Your Habits

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Wendy MacNaughton , Samin Nosrat

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

J. Kenji López-Alt

3.75

Transform Your Habits

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Nicole Perlroth

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers

Eric Pallant

4.01

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Transform Your Habits

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan Flores

3.41

Food: A Cultural Culinary History

Ken Albala

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Making It So

Patrick Stewart

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

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